A group that supports the ticket of Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for the 2016 elections has accused former President Jerry Rawlings of endorsing corruption and opulence in the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Condemning what the group describes in a statement as profligate spending in the party’s recently held national delegates congress in Kumasi, CENAB-UK said: “What CENAB-UK finds even most abominable is Rawlings’ tacit acceptance of this opulence and display of corruption money and even to an extent, invite his wife, who has come to understand probity and accountability more than he who killed for these virtues, to re-join his house rot and canker.”

Making reference to reports by the Chronicle newspaper that fresh four-wheel drives were wantonly displayed in huge convoys at the Congress to buttress its point, the group said: “What went on in Kumasi was an embarrassment to our cause for democracy and accountable governance.”

“It was a show of the mockery of a system which has become more expensive than the budget spent on our education. CENAB–UK said it believes that the weekend of the Congress “was a sad day in our democratic dispensation, which the NDC crowned by insulting those who dared to tell them the truth.”

The group noted that: “The NDC have lost their way in governance and the President has become insensitive to our needs as a nation. What sticks out in our minds after the Kumasi Congress, instead of policies and rejuvenation of ideas for 2015 and beyond, was sharing the booty of corruption, display of wealth.”

According to the group, apart from the “display of brand new 2014 registered land cruisers in the city from Friday to Sunday, blowing [of] sirens and disturbing both public and private peace” being a nuisance and an affront to the sensibilities of the public, it also found “the display of cash which according to their immediate past Chairman Dr. Kwabena Adjei was to the tune of GHC5000 per delegate, intolerable.”